Word: feverish
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...novel is Kepesh's feverish attempt to explain how he got that way. The only child of doting parents who run a summer resort in the Catskills, he develops early on a taste for the disreputable in the person of Herbie Bratasky, the New York City-imported social director at his parents' hotel. Herbie can make a whole range of bathroom noises with his mouth and looks as though he may be successful with women. One winter, young Kepesh receives a letter from his hero describing Herbie's latest toilet imitations and, against all the dictates...
What a difference color can make. In this lush, slightly feverish Italian drama, the color photography is not merely the medium, it is a potent metaphor. In scene after scene, Cinematographer Ennio Guarnier frames the setting-turn-of-the-century Bologna and Venice-in rich, painterly soft focus, but his colors are so intense that they almost seem to burn the film. Similarly, the leading characters-an eminent if controversial scientist and socialist, his beautiful daughter who is suffocating in a bourgeois marriage, his erratic lawyer-son who is so devoted to his trapped sister that he would kill...
...evidence uncovered by Grace Strasser-Mendana does not clarify the murder. What is clear, however, is that Joan Didion has produced a remarkable modern variation on Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady. Her technique may seem feverish but it is calculated to give the novel its unique quality-a blend of literary invention and the sort of lurid stories found on the "freak-death" pages of big-city newspapers. Her ear for contemporary speech rhythms, her eye for the incriminating details rank with those of William Gaddis in J.R. But it is Didion's romantic imagination...
...volume represents only a fragment of the articles that Darwin wrote in his cramped, feverish longhand over a 46 year span and had dispatched by telegraph to London, at the night rate of eighty shillings a word. When Darwin was abroad, luxury liners like the Baltic and the Lusitania ploughed the seas carrying his copy in stow...
...closer. "Change cars. Let's move her out," a young, well dressed and important looking moustache said. Sounded like a cattle drive, I thought. Playing it cool, I mosied down the road towards a smaller but more feverish-looking crowd. Somewhere inside that mass she was waiting. Waiting to blow our minds in 30. Like a professional I worked my way through that jungle of human bodies. A smooth curve connected to a beautiful well-kept body which she'd soon be inside. I went for it. I was determined. I jumped on top of the fender and was king...